Fatty Foods Can Improve Mood

Everyone certainly always strive to continue to feel excited and happy. But happiness sometimes away, sometimes also came unexpectedly. To always feel good is a challenge for anyone. They always feel pleased and happy is the luckiest in the world.

But now, in order to maintain a happy mood seemed so hard according to researchers from the University of Leuven Belgium. The results of research experts there indicates, mengonsumi fatty foods lets you stay excited. That is, You just need to eat a piece of cake or chocolate to enhance mood (mood) you in instantly.

The fact remains, there is a strong relationship between what happens in the body and the emotional conditions that we experience. The study also proves, taste is also influential to make us eat comfortably. For example, we tend to prefer to eat chocolate than Apple when hit by stress.

In his research, experts involved 12 healthy people and is considered obese. Researchers using the pipeline of food contains a liquid mixture of fatty acids or salts to then put into the body of volunteers. The researchers selected fatty acids because of the many available in various kinds of food.

The researchers then mapped out certain parts of the brain using MRI scans of volunteers. Certain parts of the brain would appear to be active as volunteers feel sad. Volunteers were also asked to hear the music is sad or neutral and also asked to see pictures of sad-themed and neutral. They are asked to speak when they feel full, hungry, and their mood before doing an MRI scan. Volunteers do not know if they were given the fatty acids or salts.

The results showed that the level of distress almost 50 percent lower on the volunteers who receive fatty acids compared to those receiving the salt solution. Fatty acid emulsion can affect the brain found that having activation or repression because of the emotion or mood. It turns out that fat can reduce some of the changes to the nerve.

That needs to be emphasized is the research done on, individual non-obesity. In doing so, does that mean those who are overweight or obese even happier? Or if they are obese and overweight at least have more value related to happiness? Of course this needs to be researched further.